Tofino – PAPR Workshop
The Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Research Alliance [PAPR] is into it s final year now. The project has supported considerable research into the relationships between protected area conservation and the challenges of neighbouring communities under the four...
Perspective on Poverty – A response
Bruce's recent jouranl entry raises some very significant observations around poverty which I would like to build on. As I think you rightly highlight, poverty is multi-dimensional and often subjective which is why coming up with generalised definitions and...
WEC Conceptual Design Report Released
Our volunteer Brent Liddle, who traveled to Tanzania at the end of last year, has completed the conceptual design report for the World Elephant Centre initiative. It is an important step forward in this major undertaking and we appreciate Brent's significant...
Perspective on Poverty – Saadani
“I don’t consider myself poor as long as I have something to eat.” [village interviewee] One of the problems our PAPR research program has had is to understand and address poverty in the context of conservation. Typically, approaches to poverty reduction have been...
Another new project!! ICAAD
ICAAD -Improving Community Awareness and Advocacy on Disability is an initiative to address the rights of disabled people to be part of development projects and programs AND it is an opportunity for the Kesho Trust to develop our capacity to embrace those rights....
Launching ICAAD
Since the project began I have worked on identifying other disabled people and also on identifying barriers and challenges. This work has helped me to realise I am not alone with my disability and that others share many of my challenges. - DPO representative, Ifakara...
Elerai Water Project Completed
In 2012 the Kesho Trust formed a partnership with a funding organziation called Help Every Day who are interested in small local projects. We solicited ideas from our partners and a project submitted by EMAYO was selected for funding which was to extend the rainwater...
2012 Annual Report Released
2012 was another big year for the Kesho Trust. Our annual report highlights some of the many activities and important contributions people have made to the work of the organziation over the past year. Be sure to have a look and keep up to date with our happenings...
Promoting Conservation in Saadani
Promoting Environmental Conservation and Cooperation [PECC] is our new 2 year project in the Saadani area made possible through the support of the Tanzania Foundation for Civil Society. The goal is to work with 6 communities adjacent to the park to promote greater...
Building Relationships with SANAPA
The work of Kesho Trust in the Saadani area has been building over the past few years. It started with a partnership with SANA back in 2008 when we discussing ideas for possible cooperative ventures. We then joined the PAPR research alliance and promoted Saadani as...
Thanks Ally!
I worked with Ally Abdallah, SANA’s Coordination Manager, for four months. In that time, I heard a lot of his stories. That is the one thing I will always associate with Ally: his stories. Stories about playing pranks on the muzungu school teacher as a kid, of...
Children in Nature – Expert Perspectives
The Winter edition of Leaf Litter focuses on the issue of reconnecting children with nature. Giving Children the Gift of Nature is an interesting series of interviews with Bob Peart, Richard Louv and Stephen Kellert --- each important contributors to the nature...